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Hyperconverged Systems for Digital Transformation

Chris Gugger

Director – Infrastructure Solutions Marketing

Agenda

Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations Introductions Hyperconverged Market – An Industry Analyst Perspective New UCP Family Q & A

Session Panel

CHRIS GUGGER

Director, Infrastructure Solutions Marketing

Hitachi Vantara

STANLEY STEVENS

Senior Analyst, Data Center Practice

Technology Business Review, Inc.

MATT BOUGES

Enterprise IT Architect

Conagra Brands

Hyperconverged Market - An Industry Analyst Perspective Stanley Stevens - TBRI

Company Market Business Structure

§ Established: 1996 § Employees: ~100 § Analysts track ~250 companies contributing over $3 trillion in technology revenue per year § Client reference > 16 Fortune 500 § Decision makers: 1,500 § Influencers: 1,500 § End user surveys: >15,000/year § Financial results ground analysis

• f industry trends, vendor

performance, profit pools and best practices § 360° market view

• Vendor analysis
• Customer analysis
• Market analysis

§ QuantCenter Information platform (360° landscape view) § Data models § Research practices: data center, telecom, devices, IoT, cloud, software, services, digital marketing and digital transformation § Tailored services

• Strategy and growth services
• Performance and

measurement services

• Voice-of-the-customer and
• pportunity services
• GTM and commercial

services

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TBR Short Facts

Legacy IT transformation hinges on: § Scalability to accommodate future workloads § Security across workloads, hardware and software § Administrative simplicity Digital transformation hinges on: § Physical infrastructure location is irrelevant § Application and data protection supersedes perimeter security methods engineered for an on-premises world Technologies enabling transformation: § Hyperconverged § Centralized management and orchestration

Encryption Policies Provisioning Usage/billing

I/O Storage CPU AI IoT Digital Security attack points Isolation-driven security Network

Data Monetization Drives Transformation Shifts

Infrastructure Must Evolve!

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Top concerns with traditional infrastructure:

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Percent of Respondents (n = 200)

REASONS FOR INVESTING IN HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS

SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June 2016

Rigid architectures = static scaling Complex & labor intensive = consumes resources Rising cost = limited workload innovation

Current storage architecture is outdated or underperforming Cost versus traditional hardware infrastructure Hardware infrastructure was due for an upgrade Reduce operating processes Improve efficiency of internal processes TCO versus traditional infrastructure Effective management of operations/processes

Critical Apps Are Migrating to Hyperconverged

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Productivity and/or collaboration Development and/or testing Customer resource management (CRM) Cloud hosting Data warehousing Business processing (ERP) Database Data back up and recovery Development and operations Business intelligence and/or analytics (e.g., data mining, predictive) Percent of respondents (n = 200)

SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, DECEMBER 2016

WORKLOADS PROMPTING THE PURCHASE OF HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS

Separating FUD From Reality

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Time to deployment Ease of installation Compatibility with existing infrastructure Capacity Application performance Percent of respondents (n = 179)

SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June 2016

KEY ATTRIBUTES VALIDATED DURING ON-SITE EVALUATION

Not All Vendors Are Created Equal

Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations Matt Bouges, Conagra

Conagra Brands Company Profile

§ Headquarters in Chicago, IL § 40 locations, including offices in Chicago, IL, and Omaha, NE § More than 13,000 employees § Over $8 billion in annual revenue § 50+ brands

§ Aging infrastructure § Converged architecture using Cisco UCS, NetApp and HDS – 1,500 desktops § Expensive and complex § Difficult to grow § New requirements due to IT and business outsourcing – mission critical

VDI Infrastructure Problem

Converged or Hypercovnerged?

§ Initially only looked at converged § Did not believe HCI was ready for mission-critical workloads § Concerned about new skill sets for a new architecture

Why HCI, What Changed?

§ Rapid HCI maturity – all flash, VSAN 6, etc. § Moving to a solo data center with 1,000 sq. feet – size matters! § Developed comfort with the technology through POCs § Great fit for VDI workloads

HCI Solutions Considered

§ Nutanix – not already in our DC § Dell/EMC VxRail – complex and constraining § Cisco Hyperflex – maturity level and size § Hitachi UCP HC – the right fit!

§ Hitachi UCP HC 240F – 2 per data center (4 nodes ea.) § 512 GB RAM, 28 cores per node, 30 TB all flash per site § VMware Horizon Enterprise 7, cloud pod architecture § HDI and HCP for UEM profiles § 12u total for 1500-2000 desktops

The Solution

New UCP Family Chris Gugger, Hitachi Vantara

Introducing the Next Generation

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC

Automated: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor 2.0

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Flexible Simple Agile

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC)

Server Workloads § All virtualized workloads running on VMware, including mission-critical and tier-1 apps § Application uptime ensured through HA, DRS, vSAN § Easily add up to 64 nodes for increased capacity Virtual Private Cloud § Service Provider VPC building block for MSP and hosting § Consistently and easily deployed on-prem and

• ff-prem (Colo)

§ Quick and easy scale-out appliances to increase capacity EUC/VDI § Up to 800 virtual desktops § Handle peak performance requirements (boot, login, read/write storms) § Quick and easy deployment and configuration § On-prem or Cloud-hosted Regional Offices § Consistent footprint and deployment operations § IT-in-a-box § Simplified user experience ideal for non-VMware experts § Centralized management for remote deployment and configuration

Q & A

Thank You